US5967047A - Thermal process for applying hydrophilic layers to hydrophobic substrates for offset printing plates - Google Patents

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US5967047A
US5967047A US08/666,292 US66629296A US5967047A US 5967047 A US5967047 A US 5967047A US 66629296 A US66629296 A US 66629296A US 5967047 A US5967047 A US 5967047A
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  • the invention relates to a thermal process for applying hydrophilic ceramic layers to substrates for printing plates. Owing to the achievable surface topography, this hydrophilized substrate is particularly suitable for coating with photosensitive layers which can be converted into printing plates which, after exposure to light and development, give printing plates which have uniform topography, permit long print runs and ensure good transport of damping solutions.
  • the most frequently used printing plates for the offset printing process usually consist of a substrate on which a photosensitive layer is firmly applied. This layer is exposed to light, after which the nonimage part must be removed completely from the surface.
  • the hydrophobic layer which remains behind (image part) ink can be applied to the product to be printed, which however is ensured only when water is present in the region of the nonimage parts.
  • the wettability with water (hydrophilic property) in the region of the nonimage parts is of decisive importance for a high-quality printed image. It is known that alumina has such properties.
  • the multistage processes require a uniform aluminum composition at the substrate surface in order to ensure that, in a controlled chemical process, a uniform surface topography free of grains is obtained.
  • the disposal of the baths and of the resulting solid are to be regarded as negative factors.
  • German Auslegeschrift 1,300,579 has disclosed a process in which a plasma is generated by means of an electric arc between a heat-resistant electrode and a metallic substrate in an inert gas mantle, with the aid of which plasma printing plates are roughened with small amounts of waste, and the surface can be modified by adding materials in such a way that it has improved hydrophilic properties.
  • this process is difficult to realize in practice since it is very dependent on the intensities of the transmitted arcs, which are determined by a plurality of factors.
  • German Auslegeschrift 2,348,717 has disclosed a further process for applying damping solution-conveying layers to printing plates for the offset printing process.
  • Layers of sparingly soluble or insoluble carbonates, silicates or quartz are provided, said layers being applied to roughened substrates by the plasma-spraying process method and then being ground to produce the suitable roughness.
  • the image area is obtained by partially removing the coating.
  • this process is very expensive owing to the machining and the etching process for removal of the layer.
  • the residues are to be reduced to a minimum and should be obtained in such a form that they can be readily reused.
  • the object is achieved, according to the invention, by a process of the generic type which is stated at the outset and whose defining features comprise producing a surface roughness R a in the range from 0.3 to 1.5 ⁇ m on the surface of the substrate film by mechanical microroughening in a first treatment step and then providing the substrate film with a durably firmly adhering hydrophilic coating by thermal-spraying processing of pulverulent oxides and/or oxidic mixtures and compounds having a mean particle size in the range from -40 to +1 ⁇ m.
  • stated particle sizes of the type from -40 to +1 ⁇ m mean that no particles having a particle size greater than 40 ⁇ m and no particles having a particle size less than 1 ⁇ m are present in the powder having corresponding stated particle sizes.
  • the hydrophilic layer applied according to the invention performs a plurality of functions which have a positive effect during coating with photosensitive resins and during use as offset printing plates.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the process which depicts the process sequence of the invention with the surface magnified.
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional sectional view taken along lines 2--2 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along lines 3--3 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along lines 4--4 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along lines 5--5 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows a process sequence with the magnified surface states.
  • a metal or plastic film 1 as a substrate for offset printing plates is unwound continuously from a roll 2 at constant strip speed, and the substrate should preferably have a thickness in the range from 100 to 500 ⁇ m, particularly preferably from 120 to 350 ⁇ m, and a thickness tolerance of ⁇ 2% with a pit-free and grain-free surface which is free from coarse organic or mineral residues.
  • Aluminum and its alloys having the preferred composition or stainless steels or refined steels may be provided as metallic materials.
  • the substrate film can be a metal foil comprising aluminum and an alloy thereof, stainless steel or refined steel or a metal hybrid.
  • the substrate film can also be heat-fixed plastics comprising thermoplastic materials.
  • Such materials include, for example, polyvinylchloride, polyesters, such as polyethylene terephthalate or polybutylene terephthalate, polyamide, polyphenyl sulfide or polypropylene.
  • polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate or polybutylene terephthalate
  • polyamide such as polyphenyl sulfide or polypropylene.
  • Other metallic materials which withstand the corrosion by the damping solution and which fulfill the mechanical properties may also be used.
  • Thermoplastic polyesters can preferably be used as plastics, polyethylene terephthalate-containing homo- and copolymers and mixtures thereof with other polyesters or polyamides being particularly suitable.
  • the plastics may furthermore contain fillers in an amount of up to 5% by weight, inorganic fillers, such as clay, titanium dioxide and/or alumina, being particularly suitable.
  • the plastic preferably contains at least 1.5% by weight of fillers.
  • the substrate 1 is fed via a freely rotating, vertically guided movable roll 3 for speed compensation and for ensuring as large a possible angle of wrap for the treatment roll 4 arranged thereafter.
  • the substrate 1 resting against said roll is mechanically roughened according to the invention in a first operation so that a microrough surface results, without the substrate being damaged by warping.
  • Sandblasting processes for rust removal, for removal of paint coats or for strengthening surfaces are already known, but it was surprising that thin films can be provided with particularly uniform microrough surface topographies with little warping.
  • the distance between the nozzle and the substrate 1 is in the range from 50 to 150 mm, preferably from 50 to 80 mm.
  • Particularly suitable blasting materials are sharp-edged blasting materials, in particular mineral blasting materials, such as Al 2 O 3 or corundum, having a particle size in the range from 10 to 100 ⁇ m, preferably from 20 to 50 ⁇ m.
  • the amount of blasting material is 500 to 1,000 g/m 2 of substrate, said amount being metered at a constant rate.
  • the metering is advantageously carried out by rotating mechanical metering apparatuses.
  • the blasting apparatus 5 which may also comprise a plurality of nozzles, is moved parallel to the longitudinal axis 6 of the treatment roll 4 at a speed of 1,000 to 2,000 mm/s. After the blasting process, the surface of the substrate is freed from dusts.
  • a hard-wearing body with low mass and a flexible rubber covering can be provided as roll 3.
  • the substrate strip 1 After the roughening treatment according to the invention, the substrate strip 1 has a microrough surface 7 with a roughness R a of 0.5 to 1.5 ⁇ m, preferably 0.2 to 1.0 ⁇ m, and can be fed continuously or in synchronized steps to the coating station, the plasma-spraying processing.
  • the thermal-spraying process, plasma-spraying processing using a plasma burner 10 in a natural ambient atmosphere with a nontransmitted arc according to DIN 32530, is known as a technology for applying thick layers.
  • Oxidic layers, on rotationally symmetrical parts, or coating of surfaces or partial surfaces by means of robots by repeated painting, in thicknesses of 50 to 500 ⁇ m, are part of the prior art.
  • the substrate 1 which may be 500 to 2,000 mm wide, is moved continuously or cyclically in accordance with the spray jet width, which may be 6 to 12 mm at the zenith, by means of a driven treatment roll 8 at a speed in the range from 5 to 50 mm/s, in contact with said treatment roll, under the hot gas jet of the plasma burner 10.
  • the use of a plurality of plasma jet burners is particularly advantageous and increases the coating speed several fold, according to the number of burners.
  • an area in the range from 300 to 1,000 m 2 /h can thus be coated.
  • the roll body of the treatment roll 8 which may comprise steel, aluminum or other metal alloys, furthermore has the task of absorbing and removing the heat from the thermal process, to which the substrate for printing plates is inevitably exposed. Additional cooling of the roll body with heat-removing flow media results in a trouble-free process, it being necessary to ensure that the temperature does not fall below the dew point.
  • layers having a thickness of 5 to 20 ⁇ m and having a layer thickness tolerance of ⁇ 5% can thus be applied by plasma-spraying processing.
  • the layers have an adhesion which corresponds to the "film test" as usually employed in electroplating. In this test, self-adhesive strips are pressed against the coated surface and then peeled off again abruptly at right angles to the plane of the coating. The coating material must not remain adhering to the adhesive layer. The layers cannot be removed as a result of flaking off when the substrate 1 is bent to an angle of 90°.
  • the plasma-forming hot gases used may be argon and nitrogen.
  • Gas mixtures, such as argon/nitrogen, nitrogen/hydrogen or, particularly advantageous, argon/hydrogen, are advantageously used.
  • the electrical power introduced is advantageously from 20 to 50 kW, particularly advantageously 25 to 35 kW.
  • a very fine powder having a mean particle size of '20 ⁇ m is used for producing a layer having a roughness R a of 1 to 2 ⁇ m.
  • Powders having a mean particle size of 5 to 12 ⁇ m could particularly advantageously be used.
  • a second powder fraction having a particle size of 20 to 40 ⁇ m, which is expediently added separately, makes it possible to produce, out of the basic roughness 14, individual peaks 15 which are randomly uniformly distributed over the surface and whose amount is controllable.
  • the particles may have different chemical compositions, such as, for example, basic layer Al 2 O 3 -peaks Al 2 O 3 +3% of TiO 2 .
  • aluminas and mixtures or compounds with other oxides which, according to the invention, give a light absorption factor of 50 to 70% at the layer surface.
  • oxidic mixtures or compounds of hydrophilic layer properties from aluminum, aluminum alloys, such as, for example, AlSi, AlMg or Al-Si-Fe, and pelletized or sintered mixtures having these compositions by oxidation of fine powders having the preferred particle sizes of ⁇ 20 ⁇ m.
  • the layer combination comprising substrate and thermally applied hydrophilic ceramic layer has different hydrophilic properties and greater resistance to wear compared with the oxide mixtures produced in the plasma gas jet and obtained from metals.
  • second oxide powder that has a chemical composition which differs from that of the first oxide powder and has a particle size of 1 to 20 ⁇ m. Powders wherein the second oxide powder is zirconium oxide or magnesium oxide are especially preferred.
  • the oxide powders employed in the inventive process may comprise mechanical mixtures of metals and may be pelletized or sintered mixtures. Additionally, the oxide powders may be ceramics or agglomerated particles of said mechanical mixtures or pelletized or sintered mixtures of oxides surrounded by metals.
  • cleaning 16 by blowing off and sucking off the nonadhering particles is expediently carried out. These particles can likewise be recycled to the material circulation, analogously to the sand-blasting process, together with the dusts obtained in the plasma-spraying processing process.
  • the cleaned strips are then coated in a coating station 17 on the hydrophilized surface 19 with a photosensitive layer 18. The coated strips are then dried and, if necessary, subjected to heating processes.
  • the preferred plasma-forming gases used in the thermal spraying process are argon, nitrogen, argon/nitrogen, nitrogen/hydrogen or argon/hydrogen.
  • the preferred combustion gases are hydrogen, acetylene, propane, propylene and oxygen.
  • the printing plates can be cut to their final size from the strip-like material.
  • the actual formating to give printing plates is carried out in the printing works by known methods.
  • a rolled aluminum foil strip, material No. 3.0205, having a thickness of 300 ⁇ m and a width of 1600 mm was subjected to a sand-blasting process in a first operation.
  • Two blasting nozzles having a diameter of 8 mm were moved at a speed of 1.5 mm/s above the foil strip at a distance of 60 mm, parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sand blasting roll.
  • the sand blasting roll itself moved at a speed of 25 mm/s.
  • the blasting material used was a fused and crushed sharp-edged alumina containing 3% by weight of titanium oxide, which had a mean particle size of 20 to 45 ⁇ m.
  • the blasting material was metered by means of a rotating disk having a metering channel, so that the foil strip was blasted at 700 g/m 2 of blasting material.
  • the amount of compressed air was 250 m 3 /h at a pressure of 1.2 bar.
  • the blasting material used was conveyed into a dust classification unit, where dusts having a particle diameter of ⁇ 3 ⁇ m were removed from the blasting material.
  • the dust-free blasting material was then reused.
  • the total consumption of blasting material could be reduced to an amount of 35 g/m 2 by this measure.
  • the metal sheet had a roughness R a of 0.92 ⁇ m, measured according to DIN 4768.
  • the cleaned foil strip was then coated with a powder combination comprising 99.5% of alumina, 97:3 of aluminum/titanium oxide and partly oxidized aluminum after the plasma-spraying process.
  • the particle size of the alumina was -12 ⁇ m+5 ⁇ m (designated powder A) and the alumina containing 3% of titanium oxide had a particle size of -40 ⁇ m+20 ⁇ m (designated powder B).
  • a mixture comprising 95% of powder A and 5% of powder B was produced from these oxides (designated powder C).
  • the particle size of the aluminum was -20 ⁇ m+5 ⁇ m (designated powder D).
  • the hot gas jet (plasma flame) was produced using a gas mixture comprising 8% of hydrogen and 92% of argon, and the electrical power was 28 kW. Powders C and D were injected separately into the plasma flame.
  • the plasma flame was moved at a speed of 1800 mm/sec above the foil strip, at a distance of 70 mm.
  • the foil strip was moved discontinuously by a water-cooled roll in steps of 12 mm, which are triggered by the transport unit of the plasma flame.
  • the water temperature of the roll was +10° C., the angle of wrap was 180° and the contact force of the foil was 10 N.
  • the layer thus produced had a thickness of 10 ⁇ m and a surface roughness R a of 1.2 to 1.5 ⁇ m (DIN 4768).
  • the adhesion of the layer was tested using a self-adhesive film, and very good adhesion was found.
  • the hydrophilized foil strip was then coated with a photosensitive layer, exposed to light and developed to give a printing plate.
  • the printing plate obtained was of good quality and has the following features:
  • Example 1 An aluminum foil strip as in Example 1 was moved using the same machine arrangement as in Example 1.
  • the hydrophilic layer was applied by the high-speed flame spraying method.
  • Powders C and D as from Example 1, were used in the burner.
  • Powder C was injected directly into the center of the flame, in which the combustion gas used comprises acetylene in an amount of 4,400 l/h and oxygen in an amount of 6,200 l/h.
  • Powder D was injected into the flame upstream of the burner. 5 burners were mounted on the traversing unit, so that a width of 75 mm could be coated simultaneously. The burner distance was 200 mm.
  • the layer produced in this manner had a thickness of 10 to 12 ⁇ m and a roughness R a of 1.2 to 1.5 ⁇ m. Testing of the adhesive strength of the applied layer using a self-adhesive strip indicated very good adhesion. Processing to give a printing plate was carried out analogously to Example 1.
  • a biaxially oriented and heat-fixed foil strip comprising polyethylene terephthalate and having a thickness of 300 ⁇ m and a width of 1600 mm was subjected to a micro-roughening process as stated in Example 1.
  • the blasted surface was cleaned by blowing off with dry compressed air, but without organic solvents, and had a non-furrowed, fine-particled, microrough surface topography with a roughness R a of 0.8 to 1.2 ⁇ m, measured according to DIN 4768.
  • the blasted foil strip was then transported to the plasma-spraying processing station. There, it was pressed closely against a roll cooled with water to a temperature +10° C., under a force of 10 N. The roll rotated at a uniform speed of 25 mm/s under two plasma burners which themselves were moved back and forth horizontally, i.e. parallel to the longitudinal axis of the roll, at a speed of 2,000 mm/s.
  • the distance between the burners and the foil strip was 100 mm.
  • a gas mixture of 10% by volume of hydrogen and 90% by volume of argon was used, and the electrical power was 28 kW.
  • a mixture of powder D and powder C (designation as in Example 1) was introduced in a mixing ratio of 30:70 into the plasma flame from two separate metering systems. The total amount of powder was adjusted so that, at a powder efficiency of 90%, a uniform layer having a thickness of 5 ⁇ m is formed. The fluctuation in the thickness of the layer thus produced was ⁇ 5%.
  • the surface roughness R a of the layer was 0.95 ⁇ m, measured according to DIN 4768.
  • the determination of the color location gave an L value of 75, measured using the Cielab system according to DIN 5033.
  • the number of peaks in the range between 3 and 10 ⁇ m was 1,000 m 2 , determined by means of image analysis.
  • the adhesion of the layer was tested using a self-adhesive film as in Example 1 and showed that it was not possible to peel off parts of the layer by means of the self-adhesive film at right angles to the plane of the layer and starting from the outer edge, i.e. very good adhesion.
  • the hydrophilized foil strip was then coated with a positive diazo copying layer, exposed to light and developed to give a printing plate. In a printing test, the printing plate obtained was of high quality and has the following features:
  • An aluminum foil strip as in Example 1 was coated with a conventional aluminum powder having a particle size of -80+40 ⁇ m and a conventional alumina powder having a particle size of -53+10 ⁇ m by the plasma-spraying method.
  • the two particle sizes were mixed in a weight ratio of 1:1 and injected into the plasma flame.
  • the usual parameters as shown in data sheets of manufacturers of plants for the application of oxide coatings are used. It is advisable to employ an argon/hydrogen mixture comprising 75% by volume of argon and 25% by volume of hydrogen, at an electrical power of 37 kW.
  • the layer had a roughness R a of 4 ⁇ m (DIN 4768) and a nonuniform composition, since the readily melting aluminum adhered to the injector and became detached as molten material in large wafers and was deposited as peak-like protuberances on the foil strip.
  • R a 4 ⁇ m
  • the printing plate produced therefrom as in Example 1 only the 25 ⁇ m lines were reproduced in light form in the UGRA test. Furthermore, point-like image parts remained adhering in the region of the nonimage parts, owing to the excessively high roughness.
  • the printing plates thus produced do not meet the quality standards of offset printing works.

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